Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 2036 - 2040, Oct 17th - 21st 2011
Near Lurker:
--- Quote from: starkruzr on 20 Oct 2011, 10:12 ---b) "The city's not really my thing," says the girl in the city, who stays in the city because she doesn't like the city. :psyduck:
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The city of 30,000...
No, she's not eis ten polin.
westrim:
--- Quote from: Near Lurker on 20 Oct 2011, 02:47 ---EDIT: Went there this morning. It's basically just a shelter and a ticket booth. The drawing is spot-on.
(But what do you expect? It's not a huge stop...)
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Well, I expect trash cleanup, and maybe some weed killing/prevention. And room service. I've said it before, but just so it's clear I'm not criticizing the state of the structures, I'm surprised at the neglect of upkeep. Really, not even the one at the local county fairgrounds that basically only gets used when there's a fair (and thus similarly consists of a shelter, platform, ticket machine, and little else) has trash and leaves lingering on it at any point, despite being surrounded by eucalyptus and at the bad end of the city.
--- Quote from: Near Lurker on 20 Oct 2011, 04:25 ---It doesn't look that bad in the comic, really... it's just that everything on the West Coast is so damn sterile. (Manhattan, too...)
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On architecture, I think you confuse 'newer' with 'sterile'. We also use far less brick with its inherently random coloration, but that's because we have different architectural influences. On trash and weeds, we certainly do have a lot of that floating about, but not on train platforms. Even the Metro in south LA, surrounded by trash filled lots and people with spray cans and a disregard for others property has been well kept when I've ridden it.
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 20 Oct 2011, 04:35 ---
--- Quote from: TinPenguin on 20 Oct 2011, 04:30 ---What the monkeybuggering hell is everybody freaking out about?
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Take your pick:
(2) Jeph depicting several pieces of litter at a railway station.
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I think I'm the only one interested in that, actually. And I just found the contrast with my own experience notable and worthy of asking about.
My opinion on the "I love you" debate is that she said it reflexively, then realized that she meant it, and holy crap my relationship is reaching a new level but he just left, please comfort me you beautiful bottle of bourbon. So she's coping with that revelation.
On time, there's been at least one timeskip (remember, they hooked up and got serious before Marten and Dora (Mora? Dorten?) broke up) so it may be six months since they started dating.
Tova:
Surely this thread is far from the biggest overreaction seen around here... more like on par for any plot-related comic.
--- Quote from: Akima on 20 Oct 2011, 02:39 ---
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 20 Oct 2011, 00:52 ---I could have sworn that when I was in junior high the big Australian plain was named Nullarbor on the map (as in Zero Trees). If the resident Australians agree on a different spelling, I need to update.
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It seems you're correct, and that I've been spelling it wrongly for years. Aussies certainly pronounce it Nullabor, though.
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Oops. Well, that's a little embarrasing. :roll: Years of pronouncing it 'nullabor' have destroyed my speeling.
Soulsynger:
--- Quote from: SomeCanadianWeirdo on 20 Oct 2011, 12:56 ---I was being a bit of a smarty pants with the reference. Just a case of knowing Indian unarmed martials arts exists, but not being overly familiar with it. Padma's more likely to be a student of some form of karate given that when she meets Faye in #1857 she uses knifehand strikes. Probably Shotokan, because it always seems when an American in fiction is portrayed as a karate student they practice Shotokan.
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Ah, okay. Well.. you should read and video up on it. Its pretty darn interesting when being considered the VERY first martial art ever developed.
Hm... you're right. Those are Shutoken. Omote Shuto Ken, to be exact (omote -> inner hand facing up) ... strange as those are more commonly used in Nin-Jutsu techniques. I'm gonna have to investigate this further. ... or could just be Jeph was drawing whatever the hell he wanted/needed to just get across that two girls are fighting.
(On a sidenote, I would've expected Faye to use some form of Shako Ken (Talon or clawed hand), seeing as she is the feisty, sarcastic, FIERCE one of the bunch. ^^ )
... I kinda lost track the discussion right here. GOnna go to sleep nao.
@Tova:
Haha... "speeling" sounds like some male facial hygene product... sports peeling or something. :-D
jwhouk:
You know, it's funny - I think that the train station in Amherst is about a third of a mile away from where we figured Dora had her new apartment.
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